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The British Construction Industry Awards seek to recognise and reward excellence in project delivery, design, construction and, crucially, delivering outcomes for society. This year is the 30th running of the awards and promises to be quite a night of celebration.

New Civil Engineer’s hugely popular Tunnelling Awards are back for their eighth year in 2017. Showcasing the very best in tunnelling expertise the Tunnelling Awards are now firmly established in London as a premier networking event for the global tunnelling community. Dr.

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The American Underground Construction Association periodically recognizes significant achievements and individuals in the United States underground construction industry. After a solicitation of nominations from the membership, the 2004 Awards Committee, chaired by Thomas F. Peyton, Vice President, Parsons Brinckerhoff, reviewed the nominations and made its recommendations to the AUA Board of Directors.

Just a few months after opening its first light-rail line-a 1.6 mi (2.6 km) segment in Tacoma, Washington-Sound Transit, the mass transit agency for this region of the state, has begun construction on a longer, north-south system in Seattle that could ultimately link communities all the way from the city's northern suburbs to Sea-Tac International Airport. The partially underground line will include one of the deepest stations ever to be excavated in soil in North America.

The Municipal Railway stands to reap a windfall that could total more than $500 million for its planned Central Subway, thanks to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who got a special provision for San Francisco inserted into the $820 billion appropriations bill the House passed this week.

The Dr. G. Sauer Corporation has established a field office in the DMJM+Harris/URS Project Office. In the first phase, numerous construction alternatives are studied and preliminary design documents are produced for the running tunnels and stations.

The rehabilitation of Marc Brunel's Tunnel was undertaken over a 24 month period by WS Atkins and Dr. G. Sauer Company (DSC) acting as a specialist tunnelling, shotcrete and waterproofing consultant, with the contract novated to Taylor Woodrow Civil Engineering Ltd. (TWCE).